Information processing system

• US 10,089,027 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2017
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation (Kioxia Corporation)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Daisuke, Nagai, Koichi, Watanabe, Takanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lane, John A
• Application Number:
  US15/710,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20180011649A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1004 to protect a block of data words, e.g. CRC or checksum G06F11/1076 takes precedence; security arrangements for protecting computers or computer systems against unauthorized activity G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1666 where the redundant component is memory or memory area
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0611 in relation to response time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0617 in relation to availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0688 Non-volatile semiconductor memory arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 16/3495 Circuits or methods to detect or delay wearout of nonvolatile EPROM or EEPROM memory devices, e.g. by counting numbers of erase or reprogram cycles, by using multiple memory areas serially or cyclically
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 29/52 Protection of memory contents; Detection of errors in memory contents
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 29/82 for EEPROMs

Abstract

According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.

Claims

1. A method of controlling an information processing device connectable to a first storage unit, a second storage unit and a data migration log area, the first storage unit including a readable and writable first memory, the second storage unit including a readable and writable second memory, the method comprising:

executing first processing for determining a storage status of the first storage unit based on reliability information acquired from the first storage unit;

executing second processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as a protected state by the first processing, executing write on only the second storage unit of the first and second storage units, executing read on one of the first and second storage units based on an address recorded in the data migration log area; and

executing third processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is not recognized as the protected state by the first processing, executing read data from the first storage unit.

2. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

executing fourth processing for recording an address of data written in the second storage unit in the data migration log area according to the write by the second processing.

3. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 2, comprising

in the fourth processing, managing the addresses of the stored data in the first and second storage units such that data of a same address is present in one of the first and second storage units.

4. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 3, comprising, in the fourth processing,

when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as the protected state, recognizing the first storage unit and the second storage unit as a same logical unit.

5. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 4, wherein

the information processing device is connectable to one or a plurality of third storage units including readable and writable third memories, and the method further comprising

executing fifth processing for controlling the one or plurality of third storage units and the first storage unit to configure a RAID and controlling, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as the protected state, the one or plurality of third storage units and the logical unit to configure the RAID.

6. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 2, wherein

the information processing device is connectable to a metadata storing unit configured to store metadata, the method comprising

in the fourth processing, recording, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is not the protected state, in the metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the first storage unit to the first storage unit and recording, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, in the metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the second storage unit to the second storage unit, and

in the second processing, in read processing, reading the data from the first storage unit when a mapping from a read target address to the first storage unit is recorded in the metadata and reading the data from the second storage unit when a mapping from the read target address to the second storage unit is recorded in the metadata.

7. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising

executing sixth processing for, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, storing first metadata stored in the first storage unit in the second storage unit as second metadata and managing the addresses of the stored data in the first and second storage units using the second metadata, and

in the fourth processing, recording, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is not the protected state, in the first metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the first storage unit to the first storage unit and recording, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, in the second metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the second storage unit to the second storage unit.

8. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 2, comprising,

in the fourth processing, in recording a first address in the data migration log area, when a second address overlapping the first address or continuous to the first address is already stored in the data migration log area, recording a third address obtained by combining the first address and the second address in the data migration log area and invalidating the second address.

9. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, comprising, in the third processing, executing read data from the first storage unit without reading from the data migration log area.

10. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, comprising

comparing of the reliability information and a threshold in the first processing, and,

when it is determined based on the comparison that a life end condition of the first storage unit is met, determining that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state.

11. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 10, comprising

in the third processing, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as a low reliability state by the first processing, recognizing that the second storage unit is in a data migration destination state of data stored in the first storage unit and changing the storage status of the first storage unit to the protected state.

12. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 11, comprising, in the first processing,

performing the comparison of the reliability information and the threshold and, when it is determined based on the comparison that a life end condition of the first storage unit is met, determining that the storage status of the first storage unit is the low reliability state.

13. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, comprising, in the second processing,

writing data read from the first storage unit in the second storage unit in parallel to the reading of the data.

14. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, comprising, in the second processing,

reading data from the second storage unit when a read target address is recorded in the data migration log area and reading data from the first storage unit when the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area.

15. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

executing eighth processing for, after it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, when a deletion processing command for data stored in the first storage unit is received, recording an address of a deletion target data by the deletion processing command in the data migration log area.

16. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

executing ninth processing for selecting data to be migrated to the second storage unit among data written in the first storage unit and, when all addresses corresponding to the data to be migrated are stored in the data migration log area, ending the protected state of the first storage unit.

17. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the data migration log area is stored in the second storage unit.

18. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information processing device further comprising a fourth memory, and wherein the data migration log area is stored in the fourth memory.

19. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

executing tenth processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is not recognized as the protected state by the first processing, erasing the data migration log area.

20. The method of controlling the information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the information processing device is connectable to the first storage unit through a relay unit, and the method comprising

when storage unit information is received from the relay unit, determining, in the first processing, that the state of the first storage unit is the protected state, the storage unit information indicating that the first storage unit is a storage unit that supports only a read operation of read and write operations.